A friend of mine, Miss Polly, brought a little illustration like this one about correspondence to my attention: This is so spot-on! For me this is particularly true for the sending and receiving of mail art. Of course, you don’t always need to create mail art, you can just write a letter and send anything …
More postcards
I love making postcard collages. First off, it’s a great size for making a collage. Second, a postcard is usually sturdy enough to be a good substrate. Third, it’s so fun to send and receive mail. I’ll say more about that in my next post. My friend Ronda without an ‘h’ and I came up …
Busy making postcards
I always seem busy, making collages in my gluebooks. I have several of them going on at one time, but haven’t taken the time to show them here. I need to work on that and get writing. But I’ve also been busy making postcards that get sent to my various mail art pals near and …
The Pantone postcard project
Earlier this year I received a box of around 50 postcards, all of different Pantone colors, from a good friend of mine. Without much thought I realized these cards lend themselves to having collages created on these colorful backgrounds. So without any planning I went to work using up scraps and little paper bits to …
Global Priority Mail journal
Recently I put together a postal-themed journal for a postal-friend of mine who has sent me some wonderful no-longer-in-use forms and papers from the USPS. I constructed the cover using a flat Global Priority Mail envelope that I cut down for the front and back. I used another envelope to cut the length of the …
